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[[folder:Hex]]
A thinking machine created by the students of UU, Hex gradually began to develop a life of his own, much to the alarm of the more forward-thinking wizards.
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* BerserkButton: Hex will refuse to work if anyone takes the FTB away.
* DeadpanSnarker: Since Hex has no ability to emotionally express, its sarcasm naturally comes out in total deadpan. And since it's dealing with wizards, Hex can be very snarky indeed.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: During ''Hogfather'', Death orders Hex to believe in the Hogfather. Hex does so, then points out that under this logic it is entitled to ask the Hogfather for presents.
* InstantAIJustAddWater: Hex gradually became alive thanks to the upgrades added to it.
* LiesToChildren: Hex has its own version, Lies to Wizards. Rincewind's usually the only one cynical enough to notice.
* {{Magitek}}: Hex is a magical computer.
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The head of the University's cleaning staff, generally held as a terror to those who work under her and the wizards.
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* FatIdiot: Mentioned as being quite round (several chins), but she's not very bright, and supremely superstitious and gullible. Half the wizards's trouble in ''The Last Continent'' that was self-inflicted is because of her inadvertently trapping them.
* FunetikAksent: Not normally, but when "in the grip of acute class consciousness" (meaning around the wizards), her accent gets extremely pronounced, producing aitches where nature never intended them to be.
* IWasQuiteTheLooker: During ''The Last Continent'', a bit of temporal wibblyness de-ages her, and the wizards are quite alarmed to find that ''Ms'' Whitlow was a very good looking woman indeed.
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A thinking machine created by the students of UU, Hex gradually began to develop a life of his own, much to the alarm of the more forward-thinking wizards.
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* BerserkButton: Hex will refuse to work if anyone takes the FTB away.
* DeadpanSnarker: Since Hex has no ability to emotionally express, its sarcasm naturally comes out in total deadpan. And since it's dealing with wizards, Hex can be very snarky indeed.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: During ''Hogfather'', Death orders Hex to believe in the Hogfather. Hex does so, then points out that under this logic it is entitled to ask the Hogfather for presents.
* InstantAIJustAddWater: Hex gradually became alive thanks to the upgrades added to it.
* LiesToChildren: Hex has its own version, Lies to Wizards. Rincewind's usually the only one cynical enough to notice.
* {{Magitek}}: Hex is a magical computer.
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[[folder:Mrs. Whitlow]]
The head of the University's cleaning staff, generally held as a terror to those who work under her and the wizards.
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* FatIdiot: Mentioned as being quite round (several chins), but she's not very bright, and supremely superstitious and gullible. Half the wizards's trouble in ''The Last Continent'' that was self-inflicted is because of her inadvertently trapping them.
* FunetikAksent: Not normally, but when "in the grip of acute class consciousness" (meaning around the wizards), her accent gets extremely pronounced, producing aitches where nature never intended them to be.
* IWasQuiteTheLooker: During ''The Last Continent'', a bit of temporal wibblyness de-ages her, and the wizards are quite alarmed to find that ''Ms'' Whitlow was a very good looking woman indeed.
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* NerdsAreNaive: He was an InsufferableGenius with GeekPhysique when he was first introduced who would frequently lapse into MagiBabble and in his earlier appearances, he was pretty unworldly. For instance in ''Literature/SoulMusic'', where Ridcully has to stop him explaining the way they can "trap" Music With Rocks In to CMOT Dibbler, because he thinks it's interesting, and doesn't realise that telling an HonestJohn that the magic music you're trying to stop can be copied and distributed is unlikely to help matters. Subverted in later books, where he's become pretty savvy about University politics, due to being the only person on the faculty who actually keeps things running.
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** In ''Sourcery'', he goes to confront the Sourcerer, his wizardly followers, and more specifically, his domineering, abusive SpiritAdvisor father who goads him into evil acts. Since said Sourcerer, Coin, is essentially an omnipotent 10 year old who treats wizardry as a terminal game of conkers, his followers have no problem conquering the world (mostly) and are vastly empowered by Coin, and his ghostly father can control his vast RealityWarper powers, this is basically suicide. Oh, and then the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions, which Rincewind holds off to allow Coin to escape. Especially since all Rincewind has is a half-brick in a sock. The reasoning is possibly that there was nowhere else to run, but it's still impressive.
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** In ''Sourcery'', he goes to confront the Sourcerer, his wizardly followers, and more specifically, his his domineering, abusive SpiritAdvisor father who goads him into evil acts. Since said Sourcerer, Coin, is essentially an omnipotent 10 year old who treats wizardry as a terminal game of conkers, his followers have no problem conquering the world (mostly) and are vastly empowered by Coin, and his ghostly father can control his vast RealityWarper powers, this is basically suicide. Oh, and then the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions, which Rincewind holds off to allow Coin to escape. Especially since all Rincewind has is a half-brick in a sock. The reasoning is possibly that there was nowhere else to run, but it's still impressive.
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* SixthRanger: Introduced more than fifteen real-world years after the rest of the recurring wizards, he became part of the ensemble in the following books.
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* CelibateHero: A mix of reasons, mainly age and the fact being able to perform magic apparently makes sex seem kind of dull, but also to prevent any Sorcerers coming about.
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* CelibateHero: A mix of reasons, mainly age and the fact being able to perform magic apparently makes sex seem kind of dull, but also to prevent any Sorcerers coming about. However, it is repeatedly indicated that most wizards have some vestigial sex drive, such as the Senior Wrangler's fixation on Mrs Whitlow and Ridcully's holding a torch for [[spoiler: ''Granny Weatherwax'']] of all people.
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* CosmicPlaything: Oh dear god, ''yes''. Apparently his Lifetimer is so warped that not only does ''Death'' have no idea how or when Rincewind will meet his end, his mere ''presence'' in a situation renders its outcome unreadable. Death keeps Rincewind's Timer on his desk as a conversation piece.
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* CosmicPlaything: Oh dear god, ''yes''. Apparently his Lifetimer is so warped that not only does ''Death'' have no idea how or when Rincewind will meet his end, his mere ''presence'' in a situation renders its outcome unreadable. Death keeps Rincewind's Timer on his desk as a curiosity and a conversation piece.
* CowardlyLion: When push comes to very hard shove, he can be surprisingly brave, most dramatically shown at the climax of ''Sourcery'' when, in order he took on: a 10 year old planetary scale RealityWarper with a tendency to treat magic as a very terminal game of conkers, said reality warper's evil SpiritAdvisor father in an indestructible staff who control's his son through brutal physical and emotional abuse and can control his magic, and the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions, buying Coin, the RealityWarper whose powers were now very much worse than useless, a chance to escape and seal the hole behind him. All of that, with a half-brick in a sock. Of course, he hates every minute of it.
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* GotVolunteered: How he got the title of Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography in the first place. The wizards wanted someone to explore their Roundworld project, and Rincewind was just hanging around as the Librarian's assistant. He then got dragged up in front of Ridcully and told he was being given a new job. Which he couldn't refuse and couldn't resign from.
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* GotVolunteered: How he got the title of Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography in the first place. The wizards wanted someone to explore their Roundworld project, and Rincewind was just hanging around as the Librarian's assistant. He then got dragged up in front of Ridcully and told he was being given a new job. Which he couldn't refuse and couldn't resign from. Since it ended up mostly involving categorising rocks, he didn't really mind.
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* HighHopesZeroTalent: Rincewind is a Wizard. He possesses the ability to see octarine, Death will show up to collect him personally (assuming he gets the chance, given Rincewind's Rube Goldberg lifetimer), he will ''in theory'' know when he's going to die (although he might have built up a resistance to it after years of assuming it every day), and so on. The only aspect of a wizard he ''lacks'' is the ability to actually do magic in any meaningful way at all. Outside of very abnormal situations, such as the Eighth Great Spell messing with him or a sourcerer on the loose, the only magic he's mastered is the ability to make himself disappear, usually with the aid of the magic words "oh shit oh shit oh shit I'm going to die" and [[ImpactSilhouette more likely than not leaving a Rincewind-shaped hole in the door]]. During ''Interesting Times'', he ruminates on the fact that while he is hopeless as a wizard, he thinks he lacks any skills for any other kind of profession as well (or at least the kind he'd want to take on).
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* HighHopesZeroTalent: Rincewind is a Wizard. He possesses the ability to see octarine, Death will show up to collect him personally (assuming he gets the chance, given Rincewind's Rube Goldberg lifetimer), he will ''in theory'' know when he's going to die (although he might have built up a resistance to it after years of assuming it every day), and so on. The only aspect of a wizard he ''lacks'' is the ability to actually do magic in any meaningful way at all. Outside of very abnormal situations, such as the Eighth Great Spell messing with him or a sourcerer Sourcerer on the loose, the only magic he's mastered is the ability to make himself disappear, usually with the aid of the magic words "oh shit oh shit oh shit I'm going to die" and [[ImpactSilhouette more likely than not leaving a Rincewind-shaped hole in the door]].door]]. In one book it is observed that the average magical ability of the human race will actually go ''up'' after he dies. During ''Interesting Times'', he ruminates on the fact that while he is hopeless as a wizard, he thinks he lacks any skills for any other kind of profession as well (or at least the kind he'd want to take on).
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* InvincibleIncompetent: He is noted for trying to run away from the plot action, yet invariably winning somehow.
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* InvincibleIncompetent: He is noted for trying to run away from the plot action, action (though sometimes, very, very reluctantly, running into it, as in ''Sourcery'' - probably because he'd recognised that there was no other place TO run), yet invariably winning somehow.
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* MistakenForRacist: Rincewind is happy to think of himself as a racist, but this is only because [[ComicallyMissingThePoint he believes the word means]] someone who is good at running.
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* MistakenForRacist: Rincewind is happy to think of himself as was apparently at one point certain that he was a racist, but this is only because [[ComicallyMissingThePoint he believes the word means]] someone who is good at running.running. After he found out the real meaning, he was equally certain that he was not one, since people of pretty much every race and species had tried to kill him.
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* NiceGuy: He develops into this while growing out of his DirtyCoward stage -- and is none too happy about it, because, dammit, it means he has a ''conscience'' that sometimes stops him from running away even when that's clearly the smart thing to do.
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* NiceGuy: He Nice is stretching it a little, but he definitely develops into this someone decent while growing out of his DirtyCoward stage -- and is none too happy about it, because, dammit, it means he has a ''conscience'' that sometimes stops him from running away even when that's clearly the smart thing to do.
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* ParentalAbandonment: He knows nothing about his parents. At one point, he claims that his mother ran away before he was born.
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* ParentalAbandonment: He knows nothing about his parents. At one point, he claims that his mother ran away before he was born. This is brought up every now and then to widespread confusion.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Sort of... to explain; Rincewind holds no particular malice against any specific type of people, provided they aren't engaged in trying to kill him. That said, he has a bit of Ankh-Morpork's usual xenophobia in him. When faced with apparent death in ''Interesting Times'', it shows up when he's internally indignant at the idea of being made to bow to a ''foreigner''.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Sort of... to explain; Rincewind holds no particular malice against any specific type of people, provided they aren't engaged in trying to kill him. That said, he has a bit of Ankh-Morpork's usual xenophobia in him. When faced with apparent death in ''Interesting Times'', it shows up when he's internally indignant at the idea of being made to bow to a ''foreigner''. This is PlayedForLaughs, because Rincewind being Rincewind, he immediately bows and scrapes and does whatever is appropriate to keep him alive on instinct. Later, when faced with Lord Hong and abasing himself, the latter notes mildly that he appreciates the additional trembling.
** In ''Sourcery'', he goes to confront the Sourcerer, his wizardly followers, and more specifically, his domineering, abusive SpiritAdvisor father who goads him into evil acts. Since said Sourcerer, Coin, is essentially an omnipotent 10 year old who treats wizardry as a terminal game of conkers, his followers have no problem conquering the world (mostly) and are vastly empowered by Coin, and his ghostly father can control his vast RealityWarper powers, this is basically suicide. Oh, and then the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions, which Rincewind holds off to allow Coin to escape. Especially since all Rincewind has is a half-brick in a sock. The reasoning is possibly that there was nowhere else to run, but it's still impressive.
* CallBack: He's nodded to in ''Literature/LordsAndLadies'' when Ridcully mentions to Granny that a Weatherwax was Archchancellor a few years back. According to her, she was vaguely aware of it, but he was a distant cousin who she didn't really know.
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** He really hates being called a monkey. Or even just hearing the word, regardless of context.
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** He really hates being called a monkey. Or even just hearing the word, regardless of context. If you're very lucky, and he likes you, you'll get a warning before you complete the word. If you're not, pain will ensue. Even if you're a fully grown troll.
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* NoManOfWomanBorn: The [[TomeOfEldritchLore grimoires]] in the Library are full of ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow, not Things ''Ape'' Was Not Meant To Know. An orangutan can read them with no problem, beyond a mild headache. The same goes for the glamour-effect that elves rely upon to cow humans into submission.
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* NoManOfWomanBorn: The [[TomeOfEldritchLore grimoires]] in the Library are full of ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow, not Things ''Ape'' Was Not Meant To Know. An orangutan can read them with no problem, beyond a mild headache. The same goes for the glamour-effect that elves rely upon to cow humans into submission.submission, and the arrows they use to control people (which just annoy himm).
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** Similarly, when Adora Belle Dearheart lights a cigarette in the library, he confiscates it. The Librarian's usual punishment for smoking in the Library is to try confiscating your head (Although possibly he has heard that Adora is more difficult than usual to direct violence against).
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** Similarly, when Adora Belle Dearheart lights a cigarette in the library, he confiscates it. The Librarian's usual punishment for smoking in the Library is to try confiscating your head (Although possibly head. It's possible that he has heard that Adora is more difficult than usual to direct violence against).against, though Moist attributes it to chivalry.
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* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: Wow-wow sauce is a TrademarkFavoriteFood of his; it contains (among other things) scumble (itself a highly infamous GargleBlaster), [[MadeOfExplodium saltpeter and sulfur]], and protective gear is an important part of its preparation. It tends to explode when mixed with charcoal (not surprising, given that sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal together make [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder black powder]]) or is allowed to age. Doubles as a HideousHangoverCure.
* BoisterousBruiser: Hands the size of dinner plates and a magically-reinforced staff. And he used to keep himself in shape by avoiding the assassination attempts by wizards trying to use the Dead Man's Shoes clause.
* BoisterousBruiser: Hands the size of dinner plates and a magically-reinforced staff. And he used to keep himself in shape by avoiding the assassination attempts by wizards trying to use the Dead Man's Shoes clause.
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* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: Wow-wow sauce is a TrademarkFavoriteFood of his; it contains (among other things) scumble (itself a highly infamous GargleBlaster), [[MadeOfExplodium saltpeter and sulfur]], and protective gear is an important part of its preparation. It tends to explode when mixed with charcoal (not surprising, given that sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal together make [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder black powder]]) or is allowed to age. One of Ridcully's relatives once had a cigar after dinner and, it is implied, exploded. Doubles as a HideousHangoverCure.
* BoisterousBruiser: Hands the size of dinnerplates plates, the ability to go three rounds with Detritus, and a magically-reinforced staff. And he used to keep himself in shape by avoiding the assassination attempts by wizards trying to use the Dead Man's Shoes clause.
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** His mind has been compared to a locomotive. Slow to start and given to linear travel, but once it gets going there's not a whole lot that can stop it.
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** His mind has been compared to a locomotive. Slow to start and given to linear travel, but once it gets going there's not a whole lot that can stop it. In general, [[ObfuscatingStupidity he's much smarter than he pretends to be]].
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Depending a little on who you ask. He can be a right bastard to his subordinates, and is at least partially responsible for at least one major nervous breakdown, but he's not malicious (the evidence suggests that he didn't intend the Bursar's nervous breakdown, and attempted to help... unfortunately, this only exacerbated the problem), and is known for being generally pleasant towards the common populace. He's even on good terms with Sam Vimes, which is probably deserving of some kind of Mr. Congeniality award.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Depending a little on who you ask. He can be a right bastard to his subordinates, and is at least partially responsible for at least one major nervous breakdown, but he's not malicious (the evidence suggests that he didn't intend the Bursar's nervous breakdown, and sincerely attempted to help... unfortunately, this his methods only exacerbated the problem), and is known for being generally pleasant towards the common populace. He's even on good terms with Sam Vimes, which is probably deserving of some kind of Mr. Congeniality award.
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* KungFuWizard: Ridcully is an eighth level wizard, and the UU maintains a frog pond specifically to house people who have annoyed him one time too many. He is also a avid hunter and excellent marksman with a crossbow, as well as a quarterstaff fighter of some repute. Oh, and he on one occasion went three rounds, bare-knuckle, against Detritus (who is famously big and strong, even for a troll) and came out none the worse for wear.
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* KungFuWizard: Ridcully is an eighth level wizard, and the UU maintains a frog pond specifically to house people who have annoyed him one time too many. He is also a avid hunter and excellent marksman with a crossbow, as well as a quarterstaff fighter of some repute.repute, to the point of winning a bout with a man half his age in Elizabethan England, when the quarterstaff was a weapon in common use. Oh, and he on one occasion went three rounds, bare-knuckle, against Detritus (who is famously big and strong, even for a troll) and came out none the worse for wear. And all of this when, at the very minimum, he's in his late 60s to early 70s.
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* ShoutOut: To [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Radagast]]. He's referred to as "FriendToAllLivingThings" and his "wizard-colour-[[BuffySpeak thing]]" is Ridcully the Brown. Make of this what you will.
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* ShoutOut: To [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Radagast]]. He's referred to as "FriendToAllLivingThings" and his "wizard-colour-[[BuffySpeak thing]]" is Ridcully the Brown. Make of this Indeed, in ''Literature/ReaperMan'', a Radagast-type is quite explicitly exactly what the UU was expecting - someone unexciting and benign and easy to manipulate, who would steady the ship after a catastrophic few years and a high attrition rate of Arch-Chancellors. Instead, they got a BoisterousBruiser whose idea of [[SpeaksFluentAnimal speaking to the beasts of the field and forest]] was bellowed proclamations of, [[EgomaniacHunter "HAH! Winged you, you will.bastard!"]]
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* StoutStrength: Has the type of body shape that big University dinners create as a matter of course, but it turns out he ''started out'' large. A keen outdoorsman, avid hunter and fearsome martial artist (he boxes trolls for fun), and in pretty great overall shape.
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* StoutStrength: Has the type of body shape that big University dinners create as a matter of course, but it turns out he ''started out'' large. A keen outdoorsman, avid hunter and fearsome martial artist (he boxes trolls for fun), and in pretty great overall shape. Official art depicts him as fairly barrel shaped, but more in the sense of a retired rugby player or power lifter who put fat on top of muscle, rather than the visibly sagging guts of all the other wizards who aren't Rincewind or Ponder.
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* RevelingInTheNewForm: Thoroughly enjoys his status as an orangutan, refusing to be turned back. It also helps that his new form gives him the ability to read cursed books that no [[NoManOfWomanBorn man]] can even look at. In ''Literature/TheLastContinent'', it's even discovered that he's gone out of his way to destroy any materials that could have been used to restore him to human form.
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* HatOfAuthority: One of the main qualities that make up a Discworld wizard is a proper wizard hat. Even Rincewind in ''The Last Continent'' takes good care of his hat, fixing it with pieces of his robe and throwing a major fuss when it gets briefly stolen.
-> A wizard without a hat wasn’t anyone, just a sad man with a strange taste in clothes.
-> A wizard without a hat wasn’t anyone, just a sad man with a strange taste in clothes.
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* NiceHat: One of the main qualities that make up a Discworld wizard is a proper wizard hat. Even Rincewind in ''The Last Continent'' takes good care of his hat, fixing it with pieces of his robe and throwing a major fuss when it gets briefly stolen.
-> A wizard without a hat wasn’t anyone, just a sad man with a strange taste in clothes.
-> A wizard without a hat wasn’t anyone, just a sad man with a strange taste in clothes.
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* NiceHat: He's a wizard. A NiceHat comes with the territory. In particular, Ridcully's hat includes several storage compartments for booze and various other odds and ends.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Given that he lives in a WorldOfSnark, this is obligatory. Taken UpToEleven in the video games, where he has a sarcastic comment about everything and anything.
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* GoForTheEye: Taken UpToEleven in his fight with the possessed Trymon. He not only gouges its eye out, but reaches right on past it and grabs a fistful of the slushy nastiness as of a cloven sunfish behind.
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* GoForTheEye: Taken UpToEleven in In his fight with the possessed Trymon. He Trymon, he not only gouges its eye out, but reaches right on past it and grabs a fistful of the slushy nastiness as of a cloven sunfish behind.
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* GoodWithNumbers: Or was at one point anyway. Ridcully's time as his employer has taken its toll on his sanity and he now regards the decimal point as a nuisance.
** [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Alternatively]] he's started going into more advanced branches of mathematics where you stop using numbers. The same sort of thing that Detritus was doing when locked in the Pork Futures Warehouse in ''Men At Arms''.
** [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Alternatively]] he's started going into more advanced branches of mathematics where you stop using numbers. The same sort of thing that Detritus was doing when locked in the Pork Futures Warehouse in ''Men At Arms''.
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* GoodWithNumbers: Or was at The Bursar is not merely good with numbers, he is ''excellent'' with them. Numbers are in fact the one point anyway. thing that is unaffected by his madness - it's when he can't do complex arithmetic instantly in his head that Ridcully actually worries about him. Ridcully's time as his employer has does appear to have taken its toll on his sanity and toll, though - by the last books he now regards is no longer actually the college bursar as he began to regard the decimal point as a nuisance.
**nuisance. Ridcully seems to believe he's lost his mathematical talents, but [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Alternatively]] it's more likely]] he's started going progressed beyond mere arithmetic and algebra into more advanced branches of mathematics where you stop using numbers. The same sort of thing that Detritus was doing when locked in the Pork Futures Warehouse in ''Men At Arms''.far higher mathematical planes.
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* AscendedExtra: He makes his debut in ''Moving Pictures'' as a fairly minor character, a student wizard who passes his final exam with 100% due to getting a paper (meant for the protagonist, his roommate) with only one question -- "What is your name?" -- then pops up a few more times near the end of the book to suffer a run of bad luck, culminating in his having a 50-foot monster land on him. By the time he reappears in ''Lords and Ladies'', however, he has been promoted to the UU faculty as the Reader in Invisible Writings. Over time, he goes on to acquire multiple further roles (to the point of actually having a majority vote all by himself), becomeing a far more important character in books where the wizards play an active role.
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* MagiBabble: See the entry immediately below.
* MrExposition: If there's a reason for what's happening that is in some way connected to logic, expect him to find it... and ''exposit'' it! At length! The other wizards find it a bit exasperating. {{Lampshaded}}, of course. [[note]]Despite being usually correct, he is easily waylaid by Ridcully's irrationality.[[/note]]
* MrExposition: If there's a reason for what's happening that is in some way connected to logic, expect him to find it... and ''exposit'' it! At length! The other wizards find it a bit exasperating. {{Lampshaded}}, of course. [[note]]Despite being usually correct, he is easily waylaid by Ridcully's irrationality.[[/note]]
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* MagiBabble: See the entry immediately below.
* MrExposition:MagiBabble: He's MrExposition. If there's a reason for what's happening that is in some way connected to logic, expect him to find it... and ''exposit'' it! At length! The other wizards find it with big words that are totally meaningless to anyone without a bit exasperating.grasp of magic (and to a number of people with such a grasp). {{Lampshaded}}, of course. [[note]]Despite being usually correct, he is easily waylaid by Ridcully's irrationality.[[/note]]
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** According to M's great-grandchild, Rincewind was a parody of the feared Warmaster of World War II, the spymaster M, who ran the Allied side of the war. Pratchett may have been terrified of M--most who encountered him as M, rather than a more mundane cover identity--were gripped with mortal terror in his presence, and the view of Rincewind as a figure whom laws of nature don't apply to accurately reflects how M's people viewed him.
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* MistakenForRacist: Rincewind is happy to think of himself as a racist, but this is only because [[ComicallyMissingThePoint he believes the word means]] someone who is good at running.
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* HeroicWannabe: "Heroic" might be a stretch, but he'll be first in line of defense when danger threatens the city... largely because he relishes the chance to fling a fe2w destructive spells around. See especially ''Reaper Man'' and ''Soul Music''.
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* HeroicWannabe: See especially ''Reaper Man'' and ''Soul Music''.
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* HeroicWannabe: "Heroic" might be a stretch, but he'll be first in line of defense when danger threatens the city... largely because he relishes the chance to fling a fe2w destructive spells around. See especially ''Reaper Man'' and ''Soul Music''.
* HiddenDepths: While he can seem like one of the more useless members of the faculty, he does have some rather powerful magic at his disposal and is quite knowledgeable. It's mentioned that as a student, he actually studied in the evenings rather than going out drinking with his classmates.
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Everythings Better With Monkeys has been turned into a disambiguation. ZCE and examples that fit an existing trope will be removed.
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* LimitedAdvancementOpportunities: The reason for the tradition of KlingonPromotion is that by tradition, the number of wizards of any given rank is fixed. Which means that no matter how good a wizard might be, the only way to get promoted from level X to level X+1 is for someone at level X+1 to die or be promoted to X+2, creating an opening at level X+1 for them to fill. After a while people got tired of waiting for openings to occur naturally.
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** Relating to the above, the general stance wizards have towards magic is to ''never'' use it unless it is deemed ''absolutely'' necessary. A major reason is rampant use of magic weakens the fabric or reality locally, which among other things can lead to things from other dimensions seeping through and leave the immediate surroundings a barren wasteland for generations.
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** Relating to the above, the general stance wizards have towards magic is to ''never'' use it unless it is deemed ''absolutely'' necessary. A major reason is rampant use of magic weakens the fabric or of reality locally, which among other things can lead to things from other dimensions seeping through and leave the immediate surroundings a barren wasteland for generations.
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** "Well done, that man!"
** ''"BURSAAAAR!"''
** "Well done, that man!"
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** Of course, considering [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep the fact he's only ever referred to by his title]], it's entirely possible somebody else took over the position between books.
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The evasive reactions of any wizards post-''Sourcery'' to inquiries about what they were doing during the Second Mage War parodies the stereotype of older Germans regarding their activities in WWII.
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* ChubbyChaser: Develops feelings for both Mrs. Whitlow and the Cheery Fairy who are both described as having rather ample figures, and is also a big fan of the fertility idols created by early humans on Roundworld (limited to be the Venus of Willendorf).
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* ChubbyChaser: Develops feelings for both Mrs. Whitlow and the Cheery Fairy who are both described as having rather ample figures, and is also a big fan of the fertility idols created by early humans on Roundworld (limited (implied to be the Venus of Willendorf).
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* ChubbyChaser: Develops feelings for both Mrs. Whitlow and the Cheery Fairy who are both described as having rather ample figures, and is also a big fan of the fertility idols created by early humans on Roundworld (limited to be the Venus of Willendorf).
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* EruditeOrangutan: Technically a man who was turned into an orangutan, but he definitely counts.
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* ParentalAbandonment: He knows nothing about his parents. At one point, he claims that his mother ran away before he was born.
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* BlackSheep[=/=]WhiteSheep (depending on your interpretation of Unseen University): Unlike all the other wizards who start off eager and eventually become lazy and well-fed, Stibbons started off plump and lazy (which everyone agreed was a good start), and then he quickly became the head of the Department of High Energy Magic, which all the Old Guard are ''not'' fond of. And then, to add insult to injury, [[WhatTheHellHero instead of becoming lazier]] as time went on, he's become increasingly more ''[[YouMonster competent]]'', something every wizard in his right mind finds [[ThereShouldBeALaw strange, weird, and generally deplorable]].
* BreaktheHaughty: His time and adventures with the wizards has seriously eroded his ambitions and ideals.
* BreaktheHaughty: His time and adventures with the wizards has seriously eroded his ambitions and ideals.
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* BlackSheep[=/=]WhiteSheep (depending on your interpretation of Unseen University): Unlike all the other wizards who start off eager and eventually become lazy and well-fed, Stibbons started off plump and lazy (which everyone agreed was a good start), and then he quickly became the head of the Department of High Energy Magic, which all the Old Guard are ''not'' fond of. And then, to add insult to injury, [[WhatTheHellHero instead of becoming lazier]] lazier as time went on, he's become increasingly more ''[[YouMonster competent]]'', ''competent'', something every wizard in his right mind finds [[ThereShouldBeALaw strange, weird, and generally deplorable]].
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* GadgeteerGenius: He made Hex, a magical multi-dimensional {{magitek}} computer, from ''ants''. Ponder's best student defects to Brazeneck College in ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'' and makes a knockoff called [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Pex]] which runs on chickens. Ridcully can't understand why Ponder takes this all so calmly [[LaserGuidedKarma until failure to account for the blit-slood differential results in a 30-foot high killer chicken]] and Ponder isn't at all surprised.
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* SugarWiki/GeniusProgramming: He made Hex, a magical multi-dimensional {{magitek}} computer, from ''ants''. Ponder's best student defects to Brazeneck College in ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'' and makes a knockoff called [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Pex]] which runs on chickens. Ridcully can't understand why Ponder takes this all so calmly [[LaserGuidedKarma until failure to account for the blit-slood differential results in a 30-foot high killer chicken]] and Ponder isn't at all surprised.
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* ScienceWizard: Stibbons studies Quantum Magic with the intensity that researchers on other worlds might give to Quantum Physics.
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* ClassicalAntiHero: Rincewind would be the first one to admit he's no good in a fight, hopeless with magic and a complete coward. In the first book this arguably reaches to him being a NominalHero, and he slightly improves from there. His most noble characteristic is a streak of selflessness, which leads to oddly heartwarming moments when he is trying to convince others that a good cause is ''not'' worth dying for and everyone should run away instead.
